in the mood for a giveaway

Well, it seems like a few of you are in need of a doughnut pan.

I got your back!

After reading all your lovely responses to my new glazed cake doughnut recipe, I decided spur of the moment to hold a giveaway! I will buy two lucky readers the exact same doughnut pan from Sur la Table that I have. It’s non-stick and I adore it. You will, too!

Just leave a comment on this post (say whatever you like!) and I’ll pick two random winners tomorrow evening at 8pm PST.

Katy Hale

liz

Lynn

February 17, 2011 at 12:27 pm

These donuts look delicious! & I need a donut pan so I can make them for my husband. He loves donuts. I just found your blog last week via Tasty Kitchen & all the recipes I’ve seen look wonderful. I look forward to visiting your site often

Marcie

Emily

February 17, 2011 at 12:28 pm

My boyfriend and I just moved into a new house and we’re renovating the kitchen! While the prospect of a new kitchen and new appliances are definitely exciting, it also means that our meals are a little uhhh … basic… as of late. Beans straight out of the can, anyone? But visiting ELR and looking at your awesome recipes is almost (almost!) enough to make up for my recent lack of creative meals.

Shareece

Meaghen

February 17, 2011 at 12:30 pm

I would love a donut pan. I bought what I thought was a donut pan at a thrift store a few years ago. I was so excited to make donuts. They didn’t turn out quite right shape wise, but still tasted delicioius. To this day, I have no idea what kind of a pan it was.

I would love a donut pan! My boyfriend loves doughnuts and I don’t let him have them since they are fried and bad. But I thought if I baked them myself we would be much better off. And, honestly, I love them too…but just don’t let myself eat the real deal anymore. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this pan!

You’re wonderful, Jenna! What a fun giveaway 🙂 …If I win this pan it’ll be like my birthday came early… because a donut pan went right on my birthday list this am… On a completely related note: I have been craving donuts all day!

alanna

February 17, 2011 at 12:31 pm

I’ve been making a list of all kitchen items that I can’t live with out (appliances, tolls, pans, etc.) because I lacking a few key items, but I don’t want to accumulate a bunch of gadets that I never use and sadly, a doughnut pan didn’t make the list. Oh, but how I really want a doughnut pan!

I can’t remember the last time I had a doughnut. When I’m around them I refuse to take one because they are so bad (especially Krispy Kreme), but I think I could allow myself 1 [or 2…;-)] baked homemade doughnuts. Thanks for the giveaway Jenna! 🙂

Carrie H

February 17, 2011 at 12:32 pm

I’ve been meaning to tell you that I made your linguine and clams for dinner last Friday and channa masala for dinner Sunday. (My husband made rice-a-roni Saturday, lol.) It was a delicious weekend of Jenna recipes! Thanks for the giveaway.

You’re wonderful, Jenna! What a fun giveaway 🙂 …If I win this pan it’ll be like my birthday came early… because a donut pan went right on my birthday list this a.m…. On a completely related note: I have been craving donuts all day!

Laura Duggan

February 17, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Growing up, my dad and I would get donuts every Saturday in San Luis Obispo at Sunshine Donuts (recommend, highly). A maple bar and cake with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles. Just livin’ the dream…:0) Would love to recreate!

Nicole

February 17, 2011 at 12:36 pm

Every since reading about your baked spice doughnuts I knew I needed a doughnut pan! Now that I’m moving from Germany back to the States, I hope that I’ll win one for my new kitchen….Also, I love your blog, I read it every day.

jen

Kay

February 17, 2011 at 12:40 pm

I literally read your post this morning, and then proceeded to try the recipe. . .in my mini-muffin pan. While delicious without the donut hole, I bet they’d be even better if they actually looked like donuts!

Marisa

I brought doughnuts to work today, because my colleagues love them and I adore my colleagues. So in order to keep everybody happy and show my appreciation for them every so often, a doughnut pan would be amazing. Might have to splurge on one. Not sure they are easily available over here though. Does Sur la Table ship international…?

Wendyf

Erica H.

February 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm

i casually mentioned to my boyfriend over lunch that I found a recipe for donuts. He’s since asked me about them, and what we need for them, about four times. It’s 4 pm eastern. Sadly, the only thing I’m missing is a pan!

Your recipe is genius, so one way or the other, I will make these donuts!

Jennifer McIntyre

Samantha Robertson

You are so sweet to give away two pans!
A doughnut pan is not one of the many that I had on my wedding registry – silly me! I’m sure my husband would LOVE some homemade donuts – or any of your delish recipes really 🙂

Lindsey

February 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm

I SO need this. I love doughnuts. I ate three yesterday for lunch. Oh, the shame!! Good thing I’m a worker-outer. Okay, so that’s not a word, but you get the point. I would love to make doughnuts at home! Mmmm…

Bettina Zygmont

February 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm

A doughnut pan is just about the only thing standing between me and absolute, total happiness (and my husband’s happiness, too)!:-) I cannot wait to get my hands on one so I can try out your recipe. You rock!

victoria

Bettina Zygmont

February 17, 2011 at 1:04 pm

I have never ever commented here before, but this is just too awesome! I cannot wait to try out your recipe, and at this point, a doughnut pan is just about the only thing standing between me and absolute, total happiness (and my husband’s happiness, too)!:-) You rock!

sabe

February 17, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Yay, a donut pan! Your picture of donuts with sprinkles earlier today made me crave sprinkles, and now I’m trying to figure out a way to incorporate them into my dinner. Perhaps I’ll put them on pancakes?

Myra

Katirie

February 17, 2011 at 1:09 pm

I would love to try making my own donuts, especially since I refuse to eat the ones from Dunkin Donuts. They always seem like a good idea, but then I take a bite and it never tastes the way I want it to!

Shirley Bomgaars

Amy

February 17, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Seeing your recipe featured on the Pioneer Woman’s website lead me over here to your blog, and I am so happy that I found it because I have been reading it daily! 🙂 I love how your recipes are very approachable for a novice cook/baker like myself, and your other posts are great as well. Thanks for offering a giveaway for the donut pans, and I would definitely put them to good use if you chose me! 🙂

Alicia Wynn

February 17, 2011 at 1:10 pm

I love, love, love your site and all the yummy recipes! I used your cupcake frosting tip and ventured to Michael’s to get my own tip. So much fun! My boys would love it if I could make them donuts anytime!

Tab

Jennifer

February 17, 2011 at 1:20 pm

I adore doughnuts! I spend a good portion of my paycheck on them. My mom while pregnant with me ate a ton of doughnuts because she says that’s all she craved. You can say I was destined to eat doughnuts since birth! I’ve been dying to try your doughnut recipes and even attempts to make them without a doughnut pan! (needless to say, they were oddly shaped).

Emily G.

February 17, 2011 at 1:22 pm

Major “do/dough-nut” question! What is the correct spelling? Is it donut or doughnut? Or are both acceptable? Not that I’m trying to be gramatically (sp? lol) correct, because trust me..I’M NOT! Maybe I should take a refesher course in 2nd grade..you know 2nd graders know the do and don’ts of the cakey-circle-shaped-dessert (yeahh..that’s what I’ll call them!).

Robin B

Katie

February 17, 2011 at 1:23 pm

It’s funny about Krispy Kreme vs Dunkin Donuts. Being from the south, we would eat both – DD munchkins, variety pack of donuts, etc. And Krispy Kreme was a more of a treat (I also associate it with church). When I moved away, Krispy Kreme reminded me of home and I was happy when they started expanding everywhere. However, now I live in California, with plenty of access to Krispy Kreme, and I do find myself craving Dunkin Donuts some times. Although, I am definitely on the side of “hot now” Krispy Kreme is the best.

Megan

Sarah

February 17, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Hah! This is so perfect. The minute I saw this post and looked at the recipe this morning I thought to myself: where can i get a doughnut pan AND NOW! Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to run around town checking out kitchenware shops so these doughnuts will have to wait at least until the weekend. I haven’t had a doughnut since….circa 1997, so I’m really looking forward to these!

Lizzy

February 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Oh my gosh I just stumbled upon your blog and have been looking at every post!You have some awesome recipes. My sister and I wanna make baked doughnuts but don’t have a pan. I would LOVE to win yours! 🙂

Lindsay

Oh my gosh! Thank you for offering this giveaway! I loved your doughnut post, but didn’t have the equipment so figured I couldn’t make it. If I was selected for this giveaway I could make my own version. Thanks again for the opportunity!!

Cathy from Orlando

Every time I see a doughnut recipe, I get super excited to try it out……and every time, I remember that I don’t have a doughnut pan 🙁 I don’t think I’ve ever even seen one, but I know that it is necessary because I seriously want to make some doughnuts.

Totally Random Doughnut Factoid: My friends and I once drove 5 hours, in the middle of the night, across a couple state lines (from Maine to Connecticut) to arrive at the nearest Krispy Kremes just as it was opening. It also happened to be in a casino and I lost 15 bucks in a slot machine. Oh, and I still prefer a good Dunkin’ Donuts or grocery store cake doughnut to KK.

Emma

February 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Not that I have room in my 700 square foot house for ANOTHER kitchen utensil, but I would love a doughnut pan! Every single one of the 20+ pounds I would surely gain would be totally worth it! At least, since I’ll have to store it in the basement, I’ll have to go up and down the stairs every time I want to make a doughnut. That’s win-win, right?

melissa

February 17, 2011 at 1:48 pm

just saw this post first and knew immediately something good was coming when i clicked to go back to the previous. looks delicious!!! i have to say my favorite doughnuts are from upstate ny at a farm (im sure other places have) where they have homemade apple cider donuts. enough said.

Lexi

I was just reading an article yesterday in food and wine magazine about some sweet potato donuts…then you posted today about your yummy glazed donuts…I think its a sign…or I’m intentionally reading things about donuts:-) Either way, this may be my weekend baking treat!

Sarah

katie

February 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm

I would absolutely LOOOOVE to make these doughnuts at home, and I am greatly in need of a doughnut pan to do so! Plus, today is my birthday…the pan and the doughnuts would BOTH make excellent birthday presents!!

Tina

Jenna! In the past two weeks alone I’ve made your creamy white chicken chili, buffalo chicken dip, Valentine’s Day truffles, and though we didn’t have time to make homemade brownies, my roommates and I made boxed brownies and sprinkled sea salt on top. YUM! Oh, and a friend of mine found your blog through mine, found a recipe that she made (and loved) and then later saw your “Seven Year and Wine” post. Turns out she actually knows Daisy from NC! Crazy small world!

Mrs Z

February 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm

I have never ever commented here before, but this is just too awesome! I cannot wait to try out your recipe, and at this point, a doughnut pan is just about the only thing standing between me and absolute, total happiness (and my husband’s happiness, too)!:-) You rock!

Shannon

February 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm

After reading your post I thought, ‘Hmm. It looks like I am going to have to get a doughnut pan.’ And I have never made doughnuts or wanted to until you posted about it. Way to go being all inspirational and stuff!

Not that I need a donut:) But ive never heard of a donut pan before your posts. Very nifty i must say! probably way better than the whole “getting canned biscuits and shaping them like donuts and throwing them in hot oil then coating them in powdered sugar” to make dounts like we did in high school!!!!

Shannon

allison m

Rebecca

February 17, 2011 at 2:23 pm

I love doughnuts and it makes me embarrassingly sad that there are only two Dunkin Donuts in San Antonio, one on the complete opposite side of the city from where I live and the other is in the airport, PAST security, ugh! I’m originally from NYC where there are almost as many DD locations as there are Starbucks, I miss my strawberry frosted donuts 🙁

Kristie

Sophia

February 17, 2011 at 2:47 pm

I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now and I’ve never commented. Sorry for coming off like a free loader, but in my defense, you’ve had other giveaways and I haven’t commented on those either.

Katylin

Sunny Brower

February 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm

Once my mom and I were watching food networks Unwrapped on doughnuts and had to run out during one of the commercials to our town bakery for doughnuts…so if I had a doughnut pan, life would be much simpler.

Kacee

February 17, 2011 at 2:57 pm

I love your recipes and my husband does too! Also have you ever taken cooking classes at Sur la table? My husband and I love it. They are so much fun…perfect type of date for us. We love cooking together, but it’s super fun for a change every now and then when it’s not in our kitchen…the lack of cleaning has a certain appeal to it 😉

I saw the glazed donuts recipe and my first reaction was, “really! baked? in only 30 minutes? How do they turn out so beautiful?” and skipped ahead to the directions, ready to begin my next baking project. Then I realized that you had donut pans… and figured that even if I tried to make some without they still wouldn’t look quite as delicious.
I would love to win these.

sarah

What a kitchen tool – this would be so fun to own! I’ve never thought seriously about maing donuts until I saw your recipe: baked, not fried, and only 30 minutes from start to finish! Now that’s something doable – thanks for maing cooking and baking not only fun and beautiful, but attainable too!

Dana

Jenny

February 17, 2011 at 3:14 pm

I would love to make some delicious homemade doughnuts for my boyfriend. He feels a bit guilty about his love of all things doughnutty, and I think it’d be great to show him that they don’t have to be so “un-nutritious”.

Melissa

Lindsey

February 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm

A doughnut pan giveaway?! Until I read your post I didn’t even know such a thing existed! I remember watching them make krispy kremes as a child through the window at the store and always thought they looked so complicated…which would explain their total deliciousness. I am a newcomer to cooking and don not own any basic cooking tools, so naturally I need a doughnut pan as it is the most basic of all kitchen tools. Sadly though I live abroad and will have to find one here…

Caroline

Amy

February 17, 2011 at 3:37 pm

A doughnut pan would put me one step closer to having my kitchen stocked with every kind of pan/tool! (So far I’m pretty far away from that goal) And it would give me the opportunity to try another one of your delicious recipes!

Kate

Rachel

February 17, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Oh my gosh! As soon as I read the doughnut recipe post I cursed out loud for not having a doughnut pan and then immediately jumped online to research where I can find one! But winning one would be even sweeter 🙂 Those doughnuts look seriously delish.

Suzanne

Ashley

February 17, 2011 at 3:47 pm

I’m not much of a baker, but when I saw the recipe for these– and this is the only kind of doughnut I like– I knew I had to try it! Thanks for posting, as soon as I graduate and get a place with a kitchen I will try these!

Jessica

February 17, 2011 at 3:50 pm

My mom always reminisces about the homemade donuts her mother used to make for her and her siblings when they were little…I’d love to recreate them for her and this pan is just what i need to pull it off!

Dana H.

Colleen

February 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm

I’d love to try to make these gluten free because it’s been years since I’ve had a donut!! I’m usually just a lurker, but I wanted to take this opportunity to say that I you’re one of my favorite blogs! I love your food and your reading suggestions!! Keep up the awesome work!

Tejal

Susan

February 17, 2011 at 3:54 pm

If you buy me a donut pan, I will make you donuts. I saw an episode of that what the food network chefs like to eat where one chef talked about maple glazed bacon donuts. I would like to make those. Bacon and donuts. How could you go wrong with that?

stacey

After mowing down on your chicken stew recipe, I thought for sure I could become a cook … until I looked at all the dishes waiting for me to be washed! And that’s why I am a baker … maybe even a DONUT baker 😀

I made donuts in baking 101 last summer at a local community college. They were to to die for. We made them the old fashioned way; made the dough, shaped them, and then tossed them into a greasy pit of hot fat. yep. That’s how I rolled for one whole summer.

Erin D.

February 17, 2011 at 5:39 pm

I found your recipe for the donuts today on Tasty Kitchen….made them tonight….they are currently cooling..ready to be iced and sprinkled!! Sadly though, I had to make them in muffin tins because no where in my small town could I find a donut pan…I looked at every possible store!! So I would adore receiving the awesome pan you use!! 🙂

Sherri

Kim the guidance counselor

February 17, 2011 at 5:47 pm

I am a guidance counselor. I feed hungry, stressed out teenagers snacks throughout the day. I like bignets. Square donuts, round doughnuts, trapezoidal donuts. I don’t discriminate. All varieties (cream filled or jam) are unequivocably welcome. I deserve the doughnut pan. Give it to me please.

Anne Weber-Falk

Lori Delgado

February 17, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Hi Jenna 🙂 WOW your donuts look amazingly yummy!!!! I would LOVE to be the lucky winner of a pan 🙂 I used to love buttermilk bars! When I was pregnant with my now 15 yr old daughter that is the one thing I craved and had to get one night, donuts! Not much else, LOL! I prefer the cake variety over the yeast personally. Can’t wait to try your recipe!

I’ve been following your blog for years now and I enjoy reading each post that you write. I suffered from disordered eating for much of my teens and your blog inspired me to start my own. Through your blog I learned that its ok to indulge abit. I’ve even took up baking and those pans would make making donuts alot easier.

Allie

February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm

Jenna, I love your recipes! We trade recipes at work and I’ve shared quite a few of yours with the others teachers. I’m taking your white chicken chili in for the school potluck tomorrow. I’d love to be able to take doughnuts in too sometime 🙂

Chelsey

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Kasey

February 17, 2011 at 6:28 pm

Wow…there are a lot of comments! I love your blog and read it daily. As a relatively new resident of San Francisco I find your bay area tips super helpful! If I won the donut pan, I would make myself some gluten free donuts, as donuts are something I haven’t enjoyed for 2 years since giving up gluten for health reasons.
Keep up the awesome recipes and posts 🙂